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Posted By Merv Newman
Silly, I know, but on the One Show tonight John Seargent was watching potato crisps being measured for "crunchiness" and "mouth feel"
Safety glasses were being worn.
Why ?
Merv
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Posted By Raymond Rapp
Perhaps they were Salt & Vinegar flavour, nasty if they get in your eyes. Hope they had a COSHH assessment as well.
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Posted By Paul T9
Did they carry out a suitable and sufficient crisp assessment?
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Posted By Crim
Didn'tsee it but could the glasses be to prevent potential eye infection getting to the foodstuff?
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Posted By Barry Cooper
Preventing him from poking his eye out with a crisp
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Posted By GaryC40
After the show i went straight to my stash of UVEX ultravision goggles, adorned them, then got stuck right into my salt 'n' shake. The kids have been given a pair each for school tomorrow as well! unfortunately i failed to assess the probability of lacerations from exposed broken crisps and consequently have just returned from casualty. We live and learn!
GC
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Posted By Colin
People have quite clearly missed the real issue! What about that all that crunching! Surely ear defenders at least, or an immediate ceasation of all that crunching!
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Posted By Paul Leadbetter
But with crunchy foods, the main noise problem is bone conduction so ear defenders are ineffective!
Paul
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Posted By Mike Craven
This is "elf and safety" gone made.
I think IOSH should respond by sponsoring the World Crisps Munching Championships. In fact, the presidential team might well be assembling a couple of teams at The Grange right now!!
Mike
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Posted By joolz040770
I think sometimes companies rely on their H&S professionals to create appropriate risk assessments and just follow them to the letter. I know a few H&S "experts" who have absolutely no common sense whatsoever and consistently go OTT with their instructions. They give us good guys a bad name and it really annoys me.
Julie-Anne
PS...I am crisp crunching whilst I repond to this thread without safety goggles. Ahhhh, life in the fast lane!
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Posted By Swis
Guys,
You are forgetting safety shoes. There’s always a chance that a crisp might fall on your foot.
And don’t forget that correct lifting techniques, you don’t want to suffer from musculoskeletal injury.
Have a great long weekend.
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Posted By Coshh Assessor
Was the crisp testing taking place in a designated eye protection area?
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Posted By Eric Eel
It seems like we are forgetting both the CHIP-stick Regulations 2008 and the Confined Space-Raiders Regulations 1997.
Ciao!
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Posted By Ron Hunter
Walker load of nonsense Merv! It's a Golden Wonder the media haven't got a hold of this - they like Sensations don't they?
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Posted By Ray Hurst
I don’t usually get drawn into this sort of debate preferring instead to read and smile wryly, but on this occasion I couldn’t resist especially as Mike has thrown down a challenge to the presidential team, plus it is a long weekend.
A great idea Mike, but it might cost IOSH a “packet” to get involved in this sort of event.
However my other PT colleagues being the “salt” of the earth that they are, they would, I believe, be up for it. Maybe not so much me as I am probably a little too much of a “crinkly” and not “cut” out for the rough and tumble of such a competition.
Besides, we might just get a “chilli” response from some members and to all intents and purpose find ourselves as not the “flavour of the month” and I certainly wouldn’t want to get “assorted” via this forum. It is time to put the “kettle” on I think and settle down to a nice cup of “oxo” and watch a re run of CHiPs (apologies to those who may be US readers of this forum).
Ray Hurst
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Posted By Robert K Lewis
Ray
We must not forget that choc and chilli crisps are currently on trial and these could be very irritating to the eyes, almost as much as the star of the adverts perhaps?:-)
Bob
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Posted By Lilian McCartney
Ray,
good reply from PT, very funny.
Lilian
p.s. what's happended to pres. Blog?
can't seem to find it
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Posted By Safe System
Just eaten a bag of cheese and onion... while writing a risk assessment... forgot i had just touched the crisp and then proceeded to adjust my contact lens.. ouch...
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